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WEIFI01<br />

WEIFI02<br />

WEIFI03<br />

28-Jun-06 14:00 - 16:00 WEIFI — Session on TT and for Industry<br />

WEIFI — Session on TT and for Industry<br />

How to Create a Business out of Manufacturing Linacs<br />

AccSys Technology, Inc. was established in<br />

R.W. Hamm (AccSys)<br />

1985 by the author and several colleagues to<br />

sell ion linacs based on the new linac technology<br />

that had just been developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The company is now the leading<br />

manufacturer of turn-key ion linacs for several markets worldwide. This paper will describe the history of AccSys<br />

and how it has survived more than 20 years manufacturing these specialized products. The similarities of AccSys’<br />

history to that of a small electron linac manufacturer established in 1970 will also be described to provide a general<br />

concept of what is required to create a business out of manufacturing linacs.<br />

Can the Accelerator Control System be Bought from Industry?<br />

This presentation is intended for project lead-<br />

M. Plesko (Cosylab)<br />

ers and specialists, whose components depend<br />

on the control system, which is nearly<br />

everybody apart from control experts. The presentation will explain the basic concepts of an accelerator control<br />

system, illustrate the similarities and differences among the most popular packages, which are nicely disguised in<br />

acronyms such as EPICS, TANGO, TINE, DOOCS, COACK, XAL, CDEV, etc. and compare them to commercial<br />

control systems (DCS and SCADA) and LabView. The second part of the presentation will analyse whether a control<br />

system is in principle a component as any other and whether therefore in principle it should be bought eventually<br />

from a competent supplier like all the other components. It will identify the reasons why many people are reluctant to<br />

outsource control systems and illustrate this with some personal experiences and suggestions how to overcome these<br />

problems. The talk will conclude by showing how naively we have started a spin-off company* to commercialize the<br />

accelerator control system that we have developed, how we have found sustainable sources of business, and how we<br />

see the future in this and related markets.<br />

* Cosylab - Control System Laboratory, www.cosylab.com<br />

Synchrotron Technology for Industrial Research, Development and Quality Assurance -<br />

Experience in Commercial Services<br />

This presentation will describe the product,<br />

T. Baumbach (FZ Karlsruhe)<br />

the market for it, the industrial environment<br />

and future projection or uses for it. It will<br />

provide a full scientific description of the development, design and performance of the product, and describe the<br />

problems, the challenges, the barriers (if any) and how to overcome them. The presentation will conclude with an<br />

analysis of what went right, what went wrong, and give advice to potential newcomers to this field.<br />

272 Chair: D.M. Lewis (GE HC, Amersham, Bucks)

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